SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA, pen name THE BUDDHA, authored The Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path. Or did he? He, and I, and you, and they, are free of the illusion of authorship and not attached to the material. (and more … )

“The Watcher” in gravel, April 2016. “The man took the fourth floor Hayes Valley walkup despite his pained legs and shortness of breath for the view it afforded of the young woman’s apartment across the street.”

“Butterfly, Brick” in The Good Men Project, December 2014. Previously published in Nat. Brut. She said, he said, Venus, Mars.

“A Man Forbid” in SFWP, December 2014. A long–form Macbeth riff set in a California prison. “Sleep shall neither day nor night hang upon his penthouse lid/He shall live a man forbid.” See it read here on YouTube.

“The Driving Instructor” in Mojave River Review, Summer 2014 at page 198. ” … and now his stare’s crawling over my chest.”

“Emerald Beauties” in SFWP, May 2014. Dorothy from The Wizard Of Oz in a realistic Dust Bowl context. A Shortlisted Finalist and a Notable Mention for Alternating Current’s 2016 Charter Oak Award for Best Historical Fiction.

“The Constant Cap” in Pithead Chapel, January 2014. Old dude won’t doff his cap for the Anthem. See it read as part of Quiet Lightning’s collaboration with the 25th annual National Poetry Slam on August 9th, 2014 in Oakland.

“A Zinzinnati Red” in Doorknobs And Bodypaint, September 2013. Communism and baseball in the midst of the Cold War. Navigate to Issue No. 71 via the archive, left–hand margin. Hayward Fault Line contest winner.

“Ryan’s Catch” in Slow Trains, 2010. You’d most likely have to like baseball to like it.

“Worms” in Prick Of The Spindle, June 2010. Had anyone ever sung this as a blues? “Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, guess I’ll go eat worms.” He sang it as a teardrop dirge dripped straight into the freshly-dug earth.